TK's Emisar D4V2 review

Ordered the v.2 in sand and 4000K SSTs, 18350 clip, magnet, spare non-magnetic cap and the SS bezel for $60 shipped, from Hank, so this will be my fourth: D1, D1S and D4.

I just want the disco lights and let’s start a Gloria Gaynor revival—‘I will survive!’

Chris

Wow big compliments to ToyKeeper for all the work that went into this light. And big compliments to Hank Wang to be willing to do all these changes.
I do not own a D4 now. But i think i have to save some money to get me one!

TK and Hank are a dream team for compact, stupidly high output lights with cool features at a low price point. Is there anyone else involved that we should be thanking too? :slight_smile:

Agreed. Great work Hank and TK.

I love the D4. It’s my favorite EDC light.

The addition of Anduril helps a lot with accidental pocket activation. You can set the top of the ramp to a level just below where it would burn a hole through your pants. It will still turn on in the pocket every now and then, but shouldn’t be a fire danger since the chances of it double-clicking to turbo in your pocket are virtually nil.

That said, it is a shame they didn’t make it harder to turn on in the pocket. It wouldn’t even have been necessary to redesign the head. All that was needed is a slight enlargement of the top of the stainless steel switchboot retaining ring so that it sticks up above the head forming a raised ring around the button.

Is the double click turbo user configurable too? Or just max?

I agree, i also don’t like memory. (its even worst if you use a lot of lights)

Thankfully Anduril is getting better by the week.
Good job TK.

No picture/view of the White-ish aux lights?

I have now flashed Anduril onto a few lights, but I am a newbie. Is there anything close to an off-the-shelf pogo-pin adapter that would work with the new D4? I don’t have the ability to make custom boards and I don’t have anything that can do reflow soldering. It looks like both are necessary to build your own pogo-pin adapter.

I would be happy to pay for an adapter if anyone would be willing to put one together for me.

I expect there are plenty of other people who aren’t planning to do hardware development or programming but would still like an option for flashing updates. Does anyone have any suggestions for a way to do this?

I too would be interested in either a DIY kit or a fully assembled one

Make that three.

At work(factory) I use momentary mode and carry in my pocket. I only need light to check on stuff for a few seconds so I really like that option, don’t have to lock it for my use. I’m not sure on this light if the momentary mode brightness is programmable but if so that’s a safe way of carrying it without having to lock it.

But that robs you from the nice ramping UI, and my current EDC has 4 or 7 modes instead of just 1 (runs on a BLF-A6 driver, with also a famous TK UI :slight_smile: :+1: )

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Great review!

Do we know the bin of the SST20 4000K 95CRI? FA3 hopefully to eliminate green a lower levels?

That would be hard since they aren’t a thing that exists. The “rainbow” mode cycles colors.


hmmm, you are correct! I thought u were mistaken. The white is missing! Start counting with red as number 1 and there are only 6 colors. Something is amiss, and I’m sure TK just let the video run, she didn’t exclude anything. Maybe there are only 6 colors.

TK?

I ordered a D4 sst20 4000K with uncoated lens from Hank and it has zero green tint.

Great to know, thank you!

That was a video of the rainbow setting. Maybe the rainbow setting doesn’t include the white(ish) color in its rotation. I agree, it would be nice to see what the white aux color looks like, though!

Wonder if he has a different bin in.

The sst20 4000K D4 I got from Hank a few months ago is very green at intermediate and low power levels. Looks fine on turbo though.

Right, I’ve heard or seen nothing about a “white” setting existing so it would be hard to see a picture or vid of it. I could just be dumb and/or blind though (maybe shining flashlights into my eye has caused blindspots :smiley: )